Emergency Physicians Call for Priority in Covid Booster Rollout

A group representing emergency physicians urged the Food and Drug Administration to prioritize frontline doctors as it considers the distribution of Covid-19 booster shots.

“The increased exposure to the Delta variant adds a level of risk to the daily lives of thousands of frontline health professionals, many of whom received the vaccine in the beginning of the year,” Mark Rosenberg, president of the American College of Emergency Physicians, said in a statement Friday.

“As emergency beds continue to fill up in hospitals across the country, we cannot afford to lose physicians on the frontlines,” he said.

The FDA on Thursday ...